Re: Fwd: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending

Posted by Bruce Sherwood on Apr 03, 2013; 11:32pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-New-post-The-Loud-and-Clear-Message-that-the-TED-Controversy-is-Sending-tp7582434p7582458.html

A small personal comment on related matters: It's not uncommon to hear statements of the form "Science can never explain X". Solving for X, one of the common solutions is "consciousness", but there are other popular solutions to the equation. Step back about 500 years, and humans were not in a position to understand a vast range of phenomena, from orbits to lightning to disease to speciation to oxidation. Little by little, it was science that provided insight. Given this hugely expanded and rapidly expanding region of understanding, I would not bet on the validity of the equation for most values of X.

Bruce

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